Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-29
MONDAY. OCTOREE aI. ISIS.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1857,
beginning Al 9 O'Clock a H., sell at public auc-
ton, at the front door ofthe Court House OF Ohio
county, West Virginia, the tract OF land belong
ing to the Northwest Virginia Agricultural So
ciety, known us the oil EAlR GEOUNi'
PROPERTY, situated on Wheeling Island, north
Of Zane street, and west OF North Huron street,
and containing, when measured 10 the top OF the
river bank, twenty-five aud elye-hundrGdt
acres. The tract extends, and will be sold, fully
TO the river.
Under authority of said decree the said com
misSiouers have caused the property IN be di7id,
ed into ? arCels. and have laid off streets and
alleys through the came. A plat, showing the
arrangement of blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
has been prepared, and may be seen at the ONCE
of George Hook, Clerk of the County Court OF
Ohio county. Printed copies of said plat may,
on and after october lSt, be had OF the under
signed.
The property will first be offered as a whole,
afterwards in blocks, and then in lots, as shown
on the plat, and will be sold in whichever way
may appear the most advantageous. When OF,
fered in blocks, the blocks numbered five and
SIX may be offered together as one parcel. When
offered in lots, two contiguous lots may lie offered
together, if bidders so desire, lftAe whole tract
be sold to one purchaser, the streets, alleys ana
lots may be diSregarded He, in such case, he
comes the purchaser Of the streets and alleys
within the boundaries Of the tract.
Ii any block be sold separately to one pur-
chaser, he, of course, may disregard the lot lines
Nltnln the DIOCk, out dlltyS must bt bptutu, II
the blocks numbered five and six be sold to-
gether TO one purchaser, the street running be-
tween said blocks. AM the alley runOing through
block five, may be diSregarded, at the election OF
such purchaser, To be made and declared at the
time OF the purchase. If he so elect TO disregard
land closel said street and alley, then the south
end of said street where ii passes through block
seven, fronting on Zane street, and extending
north TO the alley parallel with Zane street, wilt
be sold rs a lot or lots.
There are on said Fair Ground tract more than
two hundred and thirty trees. Of which about
eighty are L0mbardy Poplar, of the rem Under
the greater part are Maple. Allof said trees are
well grown, probably nere than half Of them
having trunks a foot or more in diameter.
TERMS OF ~SALE-EaCh purchaser 10 pay in
hand One.third, at least of his purchase money,
aud as much more thereof as he may choose, and
the residue, if any, in two equal instruments,
bearing interest from the day of sale, and pay
able respectively. in one and two years thereai-
ter, the deferred payments TO be secured by
notes with good personal security. But II any
purchaser pay in hand one half, OF more, OF his
purchase money, his notes fOrthe deferred install
mcntsO ftheSame shall be taken without personal
security. in every case, however, the title must
be retained as security until payment in full
GEORGE B.. CALDWELL,
VIM. ERSKINE,
Special Commissioners.
certify that bond has been given by said
Special Commissioners, as required by said de.
cree. JOHN W. MITCHELL,
Seplqb Clerk Of said Court.